Polls like this remind me that a Bush Administration level of media influencer competency probably could have won a majority of Americans over to justify the Iran War.
Just the fact that 1/4 Americans think the war was justified to begin with illustrates how trivial it is to herd people towards the next overseas genocide.
Well remember, when you hear the average intelligence is X, that is the middle of road; which means there is an upper quarter of super intelligent people and a lower quarter of people who are probably dumber than anyone you have ever met.
It isn’t even a question of intelligence. Plenty of objectively smart people supported Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of this boils down to white supremacy and the colonial drive to dominate the globe.
lower quarter of people who are probably dumber than anyone
That’s not how uniform distributions work. The population isn’t equally weighted. Something like 80% of the population is indistinguishably intelligent, with the outlayers still being highly susceptible to social pressure and confirmation bias.
If anything “smart” people are more prone to bigotry, due to their more sensitive pattern recognition.
Polls like this remind me that a Bush Administration level of media influencer competency probably could have won a majority of Americans over to justify the Iran War.
Just the fact that 1/4 Americans think the war was justified to begin with illustrates how trivial it is to herd people towards the next overseas genocide.
Well remember, when you hear the average intelligence is X, that is the middle of road; which means there is an upper quarter of super intelligent people and a lower quarter of people who are probably dumber than anyone you have ever met.
It isn’t even a question of intelligence. Plenty of objectively smart people supported Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of this boils down to white supremacy and the colonial drive to dominate the globe.
That’s not how uniform distributions work. The population isn’t equally weighted. Something like 80% of the population is indistinguishably intelligent, with the outlayers still being highly susceptible to social pressure and confirmation bias.
If anything “smart” people are more prone to bigotry, due to their more sensitive pattern recognition.